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🗓️ 30 May 2025
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage
🗺️ Martin De Porres - Episode Five: God’s Servant
Lima, Peru. The Dominican Monastery is deeply in debt, and the moneylenders have sent their workers to seize the friars’ belongings to cover what they owe. Upon learning of this, Fray Martin makes a shocking and selfless offer to save the monastery from its creditors.
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Martin de Porres’s story teaches lessons of faith, justice, and mercy. Martin’s natural compassion leads him to caring especially for animals, from feeding a stray dog as a child to miraculously convincing an infestation of rats to leave the priory. Martin’s sacrificial spirit makes him willing to sacrifice himself for the sake of his brothers. Martin’s life demonstrates how we are called to exercise true charity in a broken world.
This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. It portrays some characters’ racial animus and discrimination on the basis of race. Martin’s father, a prominent diplomat, refuses to acknowledge his mixed-race children or marry their mother. Martin is separated from his mother. Martin is verbally abused because of his heritage. Martin is initially refused entry to the monastery, but he perseveres. Martin offers to sell himself into slavery to pay off the monastery’s debts.
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0:00.0 | Lima, Peru, 1610. |
0:04.0 | The Dominican Monastery is deeply in debt, |
0:07.0 | and the moneylenders have sent their workers |
0:09.0 | to seize the friar's belongings to cover what they owe. |
0:13.0 | Upon learning of this, Frey Martin makes a shocking and selfless offer |
0:17.0 | to save the monastery from its creditors. |
0:28.0 | The Saints. |
0:31.0 | Adventures of Faith and Courage. |
0:32.6 | Martin DePoras. |
0:34.6 | Episode 5. |
0:36.4 | God's Servants. |
0:41.4 | Listen to all the episodes and discover new shows at the Saintspodcast.com. |
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1:04.4 | Father Pryor, sell me. |
1:06.8 | I am the property of the order. |
1:08.8 | Sell me to pay off the debt. |
1:11.6 | Martine, I can't believe what you're suggesting. |
1:14.6 | I'm willing to become a slave to save the monastery. |
1:20.4 | No. No, Frye, Martine. I won't hear of it. |
1:24.4 | You are not for sale. We need you. |
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